[mythtv-users] OT: Linux problem

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Damian,

Thursday, September 3, 2015, 3:46:51 PM, you wrote:

> Hi Everyone,

> I have tried to get to the bottom of this problem on a more general 
> Linux forum (ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2289024) but no one seems
> to be able to help.

> I realise that this is off topic, so feel free to ignore, but you are 
> the most knowledgeable group of Linux people I know, so ...

> The short story:
> One of my drives on my ubuntu server is behaving oddly as a mapped 
> network drive. Whenever I try to connect to it (from either a windows or
> linux machine) I get an error message about memory. From windows, it 
> says "Cannot connect all network drives", then if I click on it says, 
> "An error has occurred while reconnecting S: to [path] Microsoft Windows
> Network: Not enough storage is available to process this command. This
> connection has not been restored." I can't remember the error from a 
> Linux box, but its similar and mentions memory.

> However, if I then click onto a different drive, and then back to the 
> network drive, everything is fine! And it continues to be fine until the
> connected machine reboots.

> This problem happens, without fail, every time a reboot one of the 
> machines that connects to the mythbuntu server (actually a desktop install).

> It all worked fine before. There's plenty of space on the drive.

> Any idea what's going on?

> The long story:
> If more info is needed ...

> I have an Ubuntu machine in the garage (actually Mythbubtu) which acts
> as a server for the house.

> I have other Mythbuntu computers and Windows machines that connect to 
> this machine.

> A couple of weeks ago, I tried to update Mythbuntu on the server (first
> to 14.10, then to 15.04). Unfortunately, the update from 14.10 to 15.04
> didn't work (some problem with MySQL that I need to come back to). 
> Luckily, I had made a ClonZilla back up of the OS at each stage, so it
> was easy to roll back to the last fully working system.

> Everything seems to be working perfectly in the current 14.10 system, 
> except for mapped drives from my windows machines.

> I have drives S: and T: mapped to the Ubuntu server on all of my windows
> machines.

> The T: drive is still working fine on all of them.
> The S: drive is acting the way that I described in the 'short story' 
> description above.

> This is exactly the same on all of the windows machines, so I'm sure 
> it's something on the server that's not as it was.

> Any ideas what can be going on?
> It all works eventually. It's just annoying to have to click past error
> messages on every reboot.

> Thanks,
> Damian

> PS I'm pretty inexperienced with the terminal, so if you need to see any
> logs or output from commands, please tell me what I need to be typing or
> where I need to be looking.

> How can I get to the bottom of this?
> _______________________________________________

Check your logs on the Linux box. They probably will give you more
info. Also check free space and run a checkdisk on the problematic
volume.



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